webpage design and my design statement

A webpage design that contains Peter Bi'lak's article- experimental typography. whatever it means. "It's just an experiment" is actually a quote i got from the article. The diagonal bar is positioned as fixed so it remains at the same spot as the page scrolls down.

From what I get, "just experimenting" is essentially the spirit of experimental typography. Experiment typography varies from graffiti to album cover designs but in general, they are all bold and beautiful; expressisve and creative. I tried to represent the boldness of experimental typography with massive bold diagonal forms and fonts. Also included some of my own experiment in the background which the bright color adds to its intensity.

website is live and ready to be viewed on my student webpage

Final Poster v2.1-Vincent

I tried to bring it closer to my original ideations by getting rid of the yellow background. I also brought back the quote. (By the way, the previous quote was a joke, although this one is pretty close to it. I think it makes the poster look cluttered, but if I make the text smaller it gets lost amongst the other text.

Webpage Ideations Again...Top, Mid, Bottom

So I incorporate the feedbacks I got. There's a quote below the header, it is the same quote I used for my book as well. I changed some of the text from just being to italic into being red italic. Just so some of the text is not all black.

There was a reason that I put the narrow column with the same text as the Jetset image but I just forgot to put my description of why I did it, but it is there now. I also put more image, the ones that I like. A few image of people using helvetica as a design for a shirt and mugs.

Final Poster v2.0-Vincent

I didn't think it was clear enough that this was an ad for the book, not a cover turned into a poster, so I added "In Stores May 19, 2009. I'm going to change the 75th anniversary to 80th Anniversary because that is closer to the actual anniversary for the publication. Also, not sure about the circle. I used it to highlight the title and also balance the cropped photo, but it doesn't seem quite as integrated into the design as before. Maybe I've been staring at the poster too much and need some fresh eyes.

 

Final Poster #8 ~ Zhen

Ok, here the revision with different quote. Right now, I really like the simplicity and minimal feel of the poster.Thx josh for all your advice. So do you think this works better? (^_^)

(quote closer)


(quote farther apart)


fonts: Edwardian Script ITC and American Typewriter

Another ideation

This is just a rough of another idea that I had. Just from the feedback I got from my previous post, I decided incorporating both ideas into one poster. Instead of having literal graphics of a railway system like my previous idea had, I decided the printing press would be play that part. I wanted the idea of the steam power to be a focus here and how it was crucial for the modernization of the industrial revolution at that time. The printing press and steam engine had paved the way for technology of the era and how it modernized society. Feedback?

Final Poster #7 ~ Zhen

hi josh, it's me again.

Now you have make an example with a quote, and saying that I cannot do that....is that mean I cannot use the quote only or the whole concept?

you said, "But I'm sure you can figure out something that is like my previous suggestion but not this example. That make sense?

previous message you said, "maybe just 'Tight' and a small caption or the like that says something about experimental typography?", in another font.

What if I use another quote? or is this still violating your idea. sorry about my lack of understanding, but I just want to do it right...(^_^)...thx u for your patience and willingness to answer all my questions. (^_^)!

Webpage Ideation 2

So since it was a suppose to be a one page webpage and we're not suppose to have any other links or navigations...I removed the navigations, even thought they weren't links.

So what I have it basically the header above with a dotted line going horizontally across just to give a border line look, that way there aren't so many white spaces and you can't tell if its the header or the title of the webpage. My text is basically the "about" section and to the right is just an image I found on the link that Josh gave me about Experimental Jetset which I found interesting about the Helvetica poster that they made. And on the bottom I have two other images as well.